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...freshmen's banquet at Ithica, N. Y., took place Friday evening. The sophomores threw a few bottles, with a chemical compound therein, at the windows, and made a great deal of noise, but they finally withdrew. The two kidnapped freshmen were not released until Saturday morning...
...cleaves the air!" It was her soft voice. How sweet! But what did I hear? The sound of their united laughter? Did they mock me? My blood curdled. I'd show them whether I could cleave the air. I could have cleft the earth to have plunged them both therein. My indignation breathed new energy into my wearied frame. A reckless, frenzy seized me. In rapid alternation my feet pressed the flying treadles. I leaned far forward, and rode at fearless speed. Great beads of perspiration fell with a dull thud to the floor. The air grew hot from...
...were about to relinquish their attempts, when a young medical student suggested that a charge of dynamite would perhaps do the work. By this means the cocoa-nut was successfully cracked, and a small cavity, no larger than a tennis-ball, was laid open. The matter therein examined was viscous, sprinkled with a fine metallic dust resembling brass. One of the surgeons, a clever psychologist, thought that undue conceit had caused the viscosity of the brain tissues. Another attributed the contraction of the cerebral cavity to the course of study pursued by the Senior. A third, with a powerful microscope...
Coming up to her unawares he said, "You are laying yourself out! Permit me to say that you are eggsaggerating," which so frightened the Innocent Fowl that she made an immediate eggsit from her nest. He made an eggsamination and discovered that the Hen fruit contained therein, though eggsternally beautiful, had no Pith. The yolk laid on the shoulders of the Editor of that daily Egg (0) was too heavy to be borne...
...point with him. And however unsatisfactory this may appear, it seems to be the wisest course left for us to follow. As a matter of fact, the editorial and letter in the Advocate not only did not exaggerate, but hardly put the case strongly enough. The particular points therein specified rest on the authority of more than one witness, and something more than a general denial is needed to disprove them...